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He grunted and flicked his cigarette butt into one of the drains on the floor and rolled his massive shoulders

“She can always do better”

I snorted “Not according to her” She loved hih past, and the fact he hovered really close to the line of being ta wild—she loved every last bit of it Bax was her perfect, and I was still surprised he didn’t seerasp it

“What happened at the party?”

“I don’t know I saw Brysen and got distracted I already had the ood, then the idiot starts flashing a piece around and a clusterfuck broke loose”

I had grabbed Brysen, headed for the back of the house because I couldn’t see the shooter, and everyone else was trying to shove through the front door I wasn’t going to let anything happen to her, and I got the added bonus of getting to putto bail on her, but the life I had now didn’t line up with sticking around to chat with the cops I was uy nowadays

“You roll into the party packing?”

Ever since I had made the decision to try and pick up where Novak had left off, Bax was on un around,faces and people quaking in fear when he entered a roo to this new life and wasn’t really ready to give that much of myself over to the Point yet

“No It was just a bunch of kids It was fine He’ll just have to find a neay to pay for his books and beer this semester He wasn’t really a threat” People shouldn’t risk what they couldn’t afford to lose I’d learned that lesson the hard way

“Everyone is a threat when you have what they want or when they owe you soive You need to take each and every situation you go into seriously Kids have killed for less, Race”